The Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences
Theme for 2007: Statistics for Numerical Models

T-O-Y 2007 Workshops Plan

Four interdisciplinary one-week workshops during Fall Spring
2006-2007 with both a tutorial research/expository component for
two days and a contemporary research component for the last three
days.

Financial support is available, and is intended to defray
the costs for graduate students, young researchers and invited
speakers. More information can be found on the registration page.

Workshop III. Application of Statistics to Numerical
Models: New Methods and Case Studies

21-23 May 2007; Boulder, CO

This activity is jointly sponsored by the Institute for
Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe) and the Statistics and
Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute as part of a focused
series of workshops and other activities on new developments and
theory for random matrices. This specific workshop is a followup
to an earlier scoping workshop convened in the Fall of 2006. Go to
IMAGe Theme-of-the-Year
for more information.

This particular workshop will highlight the application of
design and analysis of computer experiments (DACE) to substantial
numerical models for important geophysical processes. The format
will include general talks on new statistical methodology for
analyzing computer models and some specific cases studies with
ample time for unstructured discussion and synthesis of concepts.
Some statistical topics include model responses that are high
dimensional, hierarchical, Bayesian approaches and connections
between DACE and spatial statistics. Case studies include climate
model experiments and climate change , global models for the upper
atmosphere and magentoshpere, boundary layer models for
understanding the atmosphere close the surface and self organizing
structures in models for geophysical turbulence.

Venue

The workshop will be held at the National Center for
Atmospheric Reasearch's Mesa Laboratory, Main Seminar Room,21-23
May 2007.

Organizing Committee

The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences
Institute (SAMSI) is a
national institute whose vision is to forge a new synthesis of the
statistical sciences and the applied mathematical sciences with
disciplinary science to confront the very hardest and most
important data- and model-driven scientific challenges. SAMSI
achieves profound impact on both research and people by bringing
together researchers who would not otherwise interact, and
focusing the people, intellectual power and resources necessary
for simultaneous advances in the statistical sciences and applied
mathematical sciences that lead to ultimate resolution of the
scientific challenges.

NCAR was formed in 1960 and has a broad interdisciplinary
research program involving more that 1000 employees of which
several hundred hold advanced scientific or engineering degrees.
The NCAR scientific program includes nearly all aspects of the
atmosphere including climate and weather, atmospheric chemistry,
ecology, instrumentation, scientific computing, and economic and
societal impacts of atmospheric processes.